Lewisham. Eco Computer Systems run one ex-library in Deptford as a community enterprise (combining it with computer recycling) and have recently taken over three more in Crofton Park, Grove Park and Sydenham. Darren Taylor, manager says “The three libraries we took over do not have the recycling business at all in them, just a small cupboard which was never being used is now utilised to store donated IT equipment. It is then collected and taken to Pepys Resource Centre, where it is got back into reuse and installed into community centres, sheltered and care homes and given to underprivileged families.”. ADP Projects has been employed by Eco Computers to improve the building at Crofton Park.

Luton. Luton Culture runs theatres, libraries and museums as a charitable trust. It has gained funding from several sources, including notably Luton Council who can donate profits from Luton Airport to the trust without paying tax on them.

Wandsworth. GLL appears to have been given the contract to run library services (15/11/12). York Gardens is run as a “Direct Services Organisation” with volunteers supporting it. “York Gardens has been set up as a Direct Services Organisation and we’ve been trying to work out what it means over the past few months. Here’s how it has been defined: As a Direct Services Organisation, YGLCC operates as an ‘arms length’ part of Wandsworth Council. The DSO is still accountable to the Council for approval of its activities and the setting of its targets, fees and charges. The Council still provides the revenue budget for which officers are responsible and accountable. The budget – income and expenditure – is ringfenced to the DSO and is not used to sustain other Council budgets or activities.”

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From 1st April 2017 to end of March 2018, CIPFA reported 127 libraries lost. Since 1st April 2016 to end of March 2017. CIPFA reported 105 libraries closed, bringing the total to 3745 branches. 2015 to end of March 2016: CIPFA reported 121 libraries closed, bringing the total to 3850 libraries. In 2014/15 there was a decline of 106 public libraries, (with 260 static libraries were put under threat of closure/passing to volunteers. 9 mobile libraries under threat in the same period). .

There were 4023 in 2013/14, 4482 in 2009/10 and 4622 in 2003/4. CIpfa have calculated that 121 service points lost in 2015/16, 106 service points were lost in 2014/15, 49 were lost in 2013/14, 74 were lost in 2012/13, 201 in 2011/12, 33 in 2010/11.

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